Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-04-30
MINNESOTA.


tionSi letter carriers.
A roller -four mill Is IL J.. cess Of construc-
ton 1t Heron Lake.
New York parties are talking Of establish
ing a wooleu mill II Duluth.
A number Of cases of scarlet fever are re-
ported at st. Paul and Minneapolis.
Four hundred immigrants arrived mt Duluth
on Wednesday-mostiy Scandinayians.
Stanislaus Grubisch was instantly killed at
Owatonna, on Wednes.ty v, in ! runaway ac-
cident.
~. G. Waite, OF 81. Cloud, recently sold
sixty acres Of land near hat city for the neat
sum Of $l3, 600.
Five hundred men will be given employ
ment In the building Of a new court house at
81. Paul this year,
a well backed movement is in progress at
Austin to establish o street car line there dur
ing the present year.
The real estate transfers at ST. Paul on
Tuesday aggregated s4S6, eco. The largest
single deal amounted to Sc ,0C0.
Twenty thousand bushels of wheat were de
stroy,d on Wedrc>day 10y the burning of the
Northwestern et vator at Wllmar.
The village cout ell OF Sank Center donated
ie neld at that place June 7 10 10.
Rev. Samuel Slntes died at Burnside on
Wednesday. He was for a lorg series Of
gears engaged IN missionary work in the
northwest.
Ten applications for licenses under the
sEAl lav haya A ,naI.b r k,-ett, aal~,,
keepers. Last year there were sixteen under
he $3.50 license.
The austin council has granted to Xwicker
u Luckey the ,Xclus We franchise for three
years OF laying J Jes III all streets OF the city
for heating purposes.
Judge Strains has epjoined the city of
Ddluth and st. Louis county from issuing
bonds to the amcunt of $40, COO for the cree
ton OF a new court house.
Capt. Maurice i. Bywater, special deputy
collector Of cust, ms AZ Duluth, who has held
tie office for fifteen years, has resigned ana
the flee has been discontinued.
R.lph Metcalf, editor of the Winonz Her
ald, aud Miss Edith Simpson were married ON
W,u .esday. The hsppy couple made their
w~ecuiug trip to Providence, Rhode Island.
Ms Settie Raymond, OF ST. Cloud, left
der me Monday evening ostensibly for a
visit among neishbors, but had not returned
at la. accounts. 1t is thought that she has
elop,d.
H"., George &. Chamberlain, Of jackson,
an oId time newspaper man in Minnesota, has
receI ly been granted q pension Of $50 per
mont. for disabilities received during the
war.
The decd Of a lot at Duluth, executed in
1872, VAS filed ior record Monday afternoon.
The consideration is mentioned as 5000, and
the present valuation Of the property is con-
siderabIy over $4,000.
A large number OF the saloonk~epers at st.
Paul are to be prosecuted for violation Of the
new license Law, watch Prohibits the employ
ment OF female help and the selling Of liquor
on Sunday ana to minors
Irwin Pugh Of Rochester, recovered $1,000
Of the kiuona and ST. Peter railroad for IL ju-
ries recc ytd by him several years ago. Pub
is to pay u, 800 OF the court cost, which will
leave 50 500 for himself and his attorneys.
z. n. Bengston, proprietor of the Mer
chants hotel at saltwater, has been arrested
for violating the law in selling oleomargarine
in place OF butter. A large lot of the contra
band article was captured at the time the ar
res. WAS made.
Two clEdren, eight and four years old, Of
Ed Petit, u dray man Of Albert Lea, were at
tackled Sunday evening by violent spssms, in
| dicating poisoning. Four doctors being call
ed, pronounced Ihs drug strychnine. The
children all dtd.
In tue Coiburn divorce case at Miuneapo-
lis, the husband files answer admitting sdul-
tery, aud charges the same career on his wife,
and sues Harry f. Badly for IS 600 damages
for winning away the wife's affections. The
case abounds in sensational nastiness.
DR.. Hewitt, secretary Of tie state board Of
health, made an Examination OF the animals
on the Amos d French farm, near Fergus
Falls, on the 18th inst and pronounced the
ailments not pieuro pneumonia, but that the
trouble came from imperfect sanitary condi.
lions.
Rev. +. {. Pollock, for 1--we years pastor Of
the Presbl terrain church st Maukato, has re-
signed and will remove to Fergus Falls to &C.
cept q similar position. Tuesday evening he
gave n reception at bis house in Nankato to
the members OF his congregation, and re-
ceived many tine presents, including q purse
of $50.
On the morning Of the ~ - March A. T..
Rathbun, editor Of the Park Z. gion Pioneer
at Pelican Rapids, left home and has not been
heard from since. He transacted some bust
ness In st. Paul In the early days Of his alb
sence and contemplated a trip to Illinois, but
his frit nds In that state know nothing Ct lis
whereabouts.
At Mona, last Saturday, when a laborer
named Jackson came home to dinner, be
found his wife, twenty years old, lying appar-
entity dead on the floor. The case has caused
.reat excitement, as the usual signs Of death
have net set in, and many believe that life is
not yet extinct. The corpse looks very nat
ural, and will not be buried until sure signs
of death are manifested.
Seeding Is we'll under way through the
county, says a Rochester dispatch, about one
balf Of the farmers being through. The
weather has been very favorable this spring,